Dälek
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Well, some time ago, I posted about Faust versus Dälek (umlautless, though it was) and since then, I have acquired a few more pieces. Abandoned Language, Streets All Amped e.p., and Absence, a cut of which is tacked onto this post. Oh Captain, My Crash... I miss that kid horribly. The following is an excerpt from one of 2 (soon to be 3) MOG posts on Dälek (properly spelled) from the always right on Crash Pryor:
"Although I find it tough to stomach a lot of the hip hop swirling around the sonic toilet bowl these days (I'm an old-school head) I'll waver a tad to pull your coat about Dälek's LP Absence which begins with the cut "Distorted Prose" that starts off with an acapella flow that soons turns on the listener with a snarl and then all of a sudden the music moon stomps up in your grill-piece like Godzilla in downtown Tokyo." Read the rest of his post here. RIP CP. word.
Appropriate words about this excellent ensemble. As I was poking around, I saw that a new release is due this month on Ipecac. TinyMixTapes posted about it in November, but I missed the early notification. It's called Gutter Tactics. okt0pus, one half of hip-hop duo dälek (pronounced dial-ekt), had this to say about it and their other albums and influences: ""Our debut EP Negro Necro Nekros and From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots were about us starting out, sometimes getting sounds more than songs," says okt0pus. "Absence was the book on how extreme you could go. Abandoned Language had more ambient moments, and was the end of that chapter of writing it all either heavy or mellow. Gutter Tactics is more us continually doing some early hip-hop shit but with the attitude of the Melvins or Black Sabbath."
Not that dälek has ever been anything but hip-hop, even as the group claims contemporaries from Techno Animal to Mobb Deep, Kevin Martin's the Bug to Isis. A group whose intense lyrics would clear the air even as its sonic density threatened to clear the room, dälek has spent a decade-plus voraciously consuming leftfield influences and spitting out sonic altercations that have seen the group garner tremendous European support even as dälek stays true to its members' East Coast origins.
"I've always just said that it's hip-hop, because that's my culture - everything I do is hip-hop," says dälek, the group's namesake MC. "And more than that it's a philosophy on how music is made, it's the philosophy of diggin' through crates to find sounds you make your own regardless of genre. Afrika Bambaataa sampled Kraftwerk, while we draw on the essence of Faust, or My Bloody Valentine..." Quoted from Ipecac 's Dälek site. Also at the site, samples from their releases of Dälek and preorder info on Gutter Tactics.
It's a sample used from MBV that draws my ear to the track loaded herein.
Brilliant. Too short.
Dälek Official , At MicePace
Comments (8)
I've been real happy with the state of hip-hop over the past 2 years, I became really turned off to the stuff by the mid nineties but with artists like this getting some recognition it looks like I'll be back to building my hip hop collection again.
Thanks for the post, I've heard of Dalek but I always wrote it off as somehow related to "Dr. Who".
This is heavy. Like it.
I definitely recommend checking out Abandoned Language.
Here's one
Yeah, this is the same group on the Messiah Remix album.
Learned a little about Dalek when folks suggested it for the Defending the Honor Of Hip Hop Post..Dug this tune. Nice one.
aaah remember the Zarpex era on MOG.
Defending The Honor Of Hip Hop
Defending mixtape on Multiply
Very deep, in an industrial-funk way. Liking it (even if the Daleks usually mean us normal Earthlings harm).
This is a great hybrid. I didn't listen very closely but at first impression it sounds really interesting, like My Bloody Valentine have hung out in Brooklyn for a month. Cool.
Hey all, glad you like. Cody, as always, playing catch up means missing some right on writing. Haven't had a chance to comment, but spot on in those posts. Mike, the only harm I hope these cats mean is preconceived notions:) zielwolf, I would love to hear an actual of that scenario:)